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Terrane
Terrane Ter"rane, n. (Geog.)
A region or limited area considered with reference to some
special feature; as, the terrane of a river, that is, its
drainage basin.
Terrane
Terrane Ter"rane, n. [F. terrain, from L. terra earth.]
(Geol.)
A group of rocks having a common age or origin; -- nearly
equivalent to formation, but used somewhat less
comprehensively.
Meaning of Terranes from wikipedia
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history that
differs from that of
neighboring terranes. The
essential characteristic of
these terranes is that the
present spatial relations are incompatible...
- fragments—the Alexander,
Eastern Klamath,
Northern Sierra and
Okanagan terranes—westward
along the s****s of this
ocean in a back-arc
process similar to...
- The
Burma terrane or West
Burma block was an
isolated Gondwana-derived
island arc
within the
Tethys Ocean. The
terrane was in the
upper plate of the subduction...
- by the
Indochina terrane to the east and the
South China terrane to the north. It is one of a
series of
continental blocks or
terranes that were rifted...
- Carolina-Avalonia-Gander
terranes and Gondwana. The
combination of slab
rollback and ridge-push
moved the Carolina-Avalonia-Gander
terranes north across the Iapetus...
- The
Sonomia terrane is a
geologic crustal block known as a "
terrane"
whose remnants are
today centered in
northwest Nevada, and
extends into
western California...
- segments. Many
terranes were
accreted to
Eurasia during Gondwana's existence, but the
Cambrian or
Precambrian origin of many of
these terranes remains uncertain...
- A
lunar terrane is a
major geologic province on the Moon.
Three terranes have been
identified on the Moon: the
Procellarum KREEP Terrane, the Feldspathic...
-
Chibcha terrane (Spanish:
Terreno Chibcha, TCH),
named after Chibcha, is the
largest of the
geological provinces (
terranes) of Colombia. The
terrane, the...
-
Cimmeria was an
ancient continent, or, rather, a
string of
microcontinents or
terranes, that
rifted from
Gondwana in the
Southern Hemisphere and was accreted...
